Here is another find of mine I rather like, it's a early Saxon fertility amulet.
It's rare in the fact there is not another remotely similar. This find is now in the London museum being reasearched.
When I first found it in Oxfordshire everyone just said it was a piece of gold plated junk. But it weighed to much for gold plated. Anyway when I got home I gave it s clean and could not believe what I was looking at. The outer pattern ring in the inner circle told me it was Saxon period.
At first I had no idea what was going on so I started to draw it.
Then half way through my sketch it puzzle all came together. Starting from the outer ring of gold I believe it's a ring that represents the bonding of a couple, then you have a pattern ring that tell the date.
Moving in you have an Apple 'leaves at the top'. That represents Adam and Eve and the start of creation. Now in the dead centre you have another tiny Apple with four seeds representing a woman's eggs. Leading down from that a tube leading to the centre of a woman's legs and both sides you have the Fallopian tubes, on the exit of the tube you have four little dashes representing four children.
The part I can't get is the writing on all four sides of the main centre panel.
I'm assuming it's the couples initials but not conclusive.
Feel free to make comments on this piece.
Posted 05/03/2018 11:25 pm
